Egger carefully expressed his conclusion after thinking for a long time. He said: "I think the infected body has group wisdom."
Egger knows that this conclusion will greatly subvert everyone's view of infected people. If you want to describe it, this is equivalent to "heliocentrism" challenging "geocentrism", and "evolution" replacing "creationism", which brings about subversive thinking.
transformation.
After Iger finished saying this, he stopped. As a result, he waited for several seconds, but none of the surprise, shock, panic and other emotions he expected appeared.
Why are these people so calm? Maybe I didn't understand it clearly.
Egger decided to talk about this matter more thoroughly. He said: "I think that the infectious agent that caused this blood plague infection, no matter what it is, they are a kind of intelligent creature."
After Iger finished speaking, he waited for another two seconds.
At this time, Joanna asked: "What then?"
Uh...it seems that everyone's reaction was not what Iger expected.
This news is not shocking, but now the basic morale of each member of the gospel team is above 20, and their mentality is also very stable, so everyone is surprised by this, but it does not cause panic or other emotions.
The fact that Egger easily killed more than a dozen infected people today made them feel that no matter what happens, in a word, it won't be a big problem.
Iger saw everyone's reactions, and after thinking about it, he felt that he hadn't explained the current situation clearly to everyone.
Egger suddenly remembered that Americans’ knowledge of natural science is actually very poor.
He remembered that there was such a strange news that more than 30% of Americans were not sure whether the earth was round, and these 30% were not all people at the bottom, but also included many celebrities, various stars, and even
There are scientists.
Not long ago, there was an Internet celebrity. He was a self-taught rocket engineer. He spent tens of thousands of dollars to build a homemade rocket. He wanted to fly high into the sky to see it with his own eyes and prove his decades-long belief that the earth is flat.
of.
After the rocket was launched and reached a certain height, it naturally fell down after running out of fuel. The result was tragic, and the parachute failed.
In the end, this Internet celebrity gave his life for the "Flat Earth Theory" in front of countless live broadcast viewers.
With this incident at the bottom, Iger feels that it is very necessary for everyone to popularize the concept of intelligent creatures.
"Do you know ants and bees?" Egger said, "They are creatures with group intelligence. In fact, group intelligence is not only possessed by ants and bees. Strictly speaking, all group cooperative organisms possess group intelligence. This is also
Including humans.”
"What level of collective intelligence do you think the infected people are at?" Father Locke asked a very critical question at this time.
"This is the focus of what I want to talk about next." Regarding this question, Egger did not answer directly. He decided to use a metaphor that is easier for everyone to understand.
"For example, for example.
For example, we humans captured many huge alien spaceships one day. These spacecrafts are very huge, each one is as big as a city. Although we control the power system, life support system, command system, control hub, we also control the communication center.
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However, we found that with our human wisdom, we simply cannot grasp the operating principles of communication centers. After all, our civilizations are completely different, and the media for exchanging information may be different.
Therefore, when the fleet flew out of the solar system, the distance between the spacecraft was so far that our human communication system could not communicate, so everyone could only do their own thing.
Human society has been divided into ‘individuals’ based on spaceships, and each alien spacecraft has become an isolated island.”
Everyone understood what Iger said, but they just didn’t know what it had to do with the infected.
"Suddenly one day, a genius engineer on the spacecraft discovered that although we cannot understand the alien communication system, we can use it to transmit information that we can understand.
To put it in the simplest terms, they are ‘dip’ and ‘beep’. These two different sounds can express all the information about us humans.
All programs run by our computers are composed of '0' and '1'. All the information we want to express can be restored to '0' and '1', and then use the alien communication system to convert 'di' and '1'
'Beep' is launched to other surrounding spacecraft.
After other spacecraft receive the information, they can use computers to decode it and read the content of the received information.
In this way, human beings restored their communication capabilities, and then established a communication network. The spacecraft scattered in every corner of the universe slowly gathered together to form a super fleet that could jointly act under unified command.
And this spacecraft that can transmit signals is the command tower of this super fleet."
When Egger said this, Father Locke had already understood it, and he fell into deep thought. Others were still listening to Egger's story with relish, and they still didn't know how this story was related to the current situation.
Egger tapped the wooden table with the index finger of his right hand and said decisively: "The infected body is equivalent to a human being. Our body is an independent spacecraft, and the screamer is the command tower."
When Egger said this, everyone understood, and now everyone let out a gasp.
Father Locke pondered for a while and then said: "Are you saying that the collective intelligence of those infected will become higher and higher as their communication skills improve?"
"Yes. That's what I'm most worried about." Egger said.
Next, Egger explained the analytical reasons for his conclusion.
"Today, the four of us all experienced symptoms of discomfort after hearing the screams." Egger said to everyone: "The first thing to rule out is the impact of high-pitched audio on the brain nerves.
It was just an ordinary, sharp scream of a human man, and it couldn't be stronger than a shock bomb.
At a distance of 100 meters, the shock bomb explosion will not have such a strong impact.
Therefore, after ruling out the impact of high-intensity audio on the brain, the only answer left is the content of the sound.
I think this voice contains a message similar to a 'mobilization order'. All the infected people suddenly rush together, and the infected bodies lurking in our bodies are also 'activated' at that moment.
Fortunately, we are all immune and the outbreak of infectious agents failed.
However, if there is a person who is on the verge of infection, such as Fran's condition that day, he may become infected in an instant under the stimulation of this scream."
"You mean, all four of us are at risk of infection?" Joanna asked worriedly, and she finally understood why Iger ordered the four of them to be quarantined together as soon as he came back.
"It's not necessarily the case. It's hard to tell whether it's good or bad." Egg shook his head and said: "There must be a price to pay for the infection to trigger this state. Let's not mention the infected person, just those latent in our body.
Infectious body.
Once an infectious agent fails to break out, it will definitely face suppression of the immune system and loss of troops. From this aspect, it is not necessarily a bad thing for us."
"To summarize my conclusion again." Egger said after a long sigh: "What we are facing now is a large group of infected people with insect-level group intelligence, a 'commander', and the ability to actively move and prey collectively.
It is not ruled out that they will have a more powerful "command tower" in the future, a more threatening intelligence, and an increasingly large number of predators.
Our living environment is becoming increasingly unfriendly."